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The Tumblr is called Straight Outta Cooperstown. The images show hip-hop artists’ faces Photoshopped expertly into baseball cards. The captions are baseball- or game-themed lyrics. And the creatives behind it are Cori Johnson and Zac Milner.

Can a kid build a legacy in five days? Ask anyone at McKinney, and they’ll tell you yes if that kid is Glenn Green. Last week we had the pleasure of working with an aspiring art director from the Emily K. Center. And it really was a pleasure. Below, people who worked with him each day and others who met him by chance in the office share their impressions of Glenn, the youngest intern ever hired by an ad agency.

“It’s a step beyond Facebook likes,” said Social Media Specialist Jimmy Patel-Nguyen. He’s talking about Facebook’s new See First capability, which allows users to choose up to 30 accounts whose posts they wish to see at the top of their news feed.

Glenn Green, an 12-year-old who completed his sixth year at Maureen Joy Charter School in May, has been hired to work at McKinney on the 2015 Triangle Corporate Battle of the Bands, specifically to design and promote a new award for the September event. He starts today and reports to Associate Creative Director Ellen Springer, who said, “Glenn’s creativity and drive make him a natural addition to our Battle team, and we look forward to working with him.”

The media coverage of Crocs on the rich and famous continues. It started with Alan Cumming and then Helen Mirren in April on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. This week, Britain’s Prince George wore Crocs to his dad’s polo game and was caught by paparazzi doing such things as walking with his mom, playing with a truck and hitting a miniature polo stick. People Magazine covered it all.

McKinney’s focus is on influence through creativity, and, arguably, no one in the past 12 months has influenced our culture more creatively than the podcast Serial. Its combination of rigorous reporting and expert storytelling made addicts out of listeners around the world who downloaded the podcast more than 88 million times.